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All Your Base didn't need Reddit, 4chan, Tumblr, Twitter, or Facebook to become a meme... and neither did your mom

Rykin wrote:

All Your Base didn't need Reddit, 4chan, Tumblr, Twitter, or Facebook to become a meme... and neither did your mom ;)

More or less those tend to be the places where they reach critical mass. The origin can come from anywhere, it just needs to be found and shared.

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tanstaafl wrote:

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Obligatory "that'll buff right out"

EDIT: now with picture

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ccesarano wrote:
LouZiffer wrote:

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Wasn't 4chan doing the whole meme thing before Reddit?

The image isn't saying Reddit created the concept of memes.

Rykin wrote:

All Your Base didn't need Reddit, 4chan, Tumblr, Twitter, or Facebook to become a meme... and neither did your mom ;)

Yeah, I was there on Something Awful when that happened (AYB, not his mom).

Quintin_Stone wrote:

I was there on Something Awful

Now things become more clear...

Quintin_Stone wrote:
Rykin wrote:

All Your Base didn't need Reddit, 4chan, Tumblr, Twitter, or Facebook to become a meme... and neither did your mom ;)

Yeah, I was there on Something Awful when that happened (AYB, not his mom).

So you're the one!!!

McIrishJihad wrote:

EDIT: spoiler alert

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FTFY

tanstaafl wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:
Rykin wrote:

All Your Base didn't need Reddit, 4chan, Tumblr, Twitter, or Facebook to become a meme... and neither did your mom ;)

Yeah, I was there on Something Awful when that happened (AYB, not his mom).

So you're the one!!! :mad:

The Zero Wing into animated gif had been around for a while, but how the meme started was a thread where the first post was a skeleton from Army of Darkness I think with a balloon quote saying "On the table!" The first response was a pic with a balloon quote "All your base are belong to us." It snowballed after that. The pics slowly got more sophisticated, fewer balloon quotes, more proper photoshop work. Many of the pics were grabbed and posted in other forums, and those people would do their own pics, and so on and so on. One of the SA guys was a (the?) member of The Laziest Men on Mars, which did a remix of music Zero Wing and added the dialog with a speech synthesizer.

After a while, Bad_CRC took a bunch of people's pics (without asking), combined them with TLMoM music (without asking), and put out the (in)famous flash video. Yeah, one of those pics was mine and I was improperly credited at the end as "Quitin". IMAGE(http://rps.net/QS/Images/Smilies/rolleyes.gif)

Picture!

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Amoebic wrote:

Dragon/car was a Reddit thing brought over to here.

Actually, I'd never lurked Reddit when I brought it up. I had seen some horrible furry (scaly?) art of weclock's ilk, that can be found via a horrible, horrible GIS. Wish I could claim I'd come up with the concept originally, but at least I put it into your brains.

ccesarano wrote:
LouZiffer wrote:

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Wasn't 4chan doing the whole meme thing before Reddit?

I guess I'm the only one who's heard of Richard Dawkins?

nel e nel wrote:

I guess I'm the only one who's heard of Richard Dawkins?

nope

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We've replaced this cat's scratching post with a Macbook Pro. Let's see the results.

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Spoiler:

My wife's MBP, our bed, and our cat. And the local Apple store fixed the keys for free. Just...annoying.

CheezePavilion wrote:

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'Shooped. Color-shifted, at least.

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Spoiler:

Why yes, I have a young daughter. Why do you ask?

Minarchist wrote:
CheezePavilion wrote:

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'Shooped. Color-shifted, at least.

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Spoiler:

Why yes, I have a young daughter. Why do you ask?

You're right--in fact, it's all 'shooped. Disappointing.

nel e nel wrote:

I guess I'm the only one who's heard of Richard Dawkins?

You expect people on the internet to read a book?

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I plan on doing this to my wife. I may need to crash at carrotpanic's place for a few days afterwards.

nel e nel wrote:

I guess I'm the only one who's heard of Richard Dawkins?

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?

Oh wait...

SURVEY SAYS!

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They both have at least two more things they could be pointing with each

Having read Cyanide and Happiness, I'm surprised they aren't...

But they already are pointing with their noses....

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WipEout wrote:
TigerBill wrote:
Eldon_of_Azure wrote:

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Saw this on Imgur and I'm afraid I still don't get it.

Obviously you're not a golfer.

I don't know what made laugh more. The comic or Wipeout.

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For the next Steam sale:
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Eldon_of_Azure wrote:

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Oh Gravey... you read my mind.

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We probably had some of these;
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More

Oh hey, look who made White Whines.

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